Tiruppāmpuram, Cēṭapurīsvarar (Śeṣapurīśvara), time of Rājarāja, year 22

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00192.

Summary: Tiruppāmpuram, Naṉṉilam taluk, Tanjavur district, Śeṣapurīśvara temple. On the base of the temple (?). 22nd regnal year of Tirupuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ Śrīrājarājatēvar = Rājarāja II or III.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

Version: (945c2a7), last modified (10d8eb3).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

tiru-puvaṉa-c-cakkaravattikaḷ śrī-rājarāja-tēva¡ṟ!⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭu 2 10 2-vatu meṣa-nāyaṟṟu pūrva-pakṣattu ¿b?⟨p⟩añcamiyum putaṉ-kiḻamaiyum peṟṟa pūcattu nāḷ

Uyya-k-koṇṭār-vaḷanāṭṭu Uṭaiyār tiru-p-pāmpuram-uṭaiyār [6+] āṉa [3+] pāṭṭaṭai [6+] paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar nittal paṭikku Aricillāṟṟil tiru-mañcaṉam (tiru)-kalattukkum Aim-patt-iru-c-ceṅkaḻ¿aṉi-t?⟨unīr⟩ tiru-p-paḷḷittāmattukkum Ivv-ūrilum piṟin=ta{ta} Ūrilum Ivar kāṇi-y-āṉa nilattum kuḷattum Uṭppaṭa piṭāri kōyilukku teṟkku na(t)ta(m) teṉ-karaiyil-k koṇṭu Arai-k-kōl Akalattu pōkiṟa cā [3+] vā⟨y⟩kkālukku ⟨2⟩ vaṭa-kuḷam ciṟutu tiruntu Uḷpaṭa nilam {3 fractions}

Itil

  • Ūr nīṅkiṉa Iṟaiyili nittal-p paṭikku tiru-ceṅkaḻ¿aṉi?⟨unīr⟩ Iṭa Aṭ¿a?⟨ai⟩tta <nilam> 5 [3+] m
  • tiru-mañcaṉam Eṭuppānukku Aṭaitta <nilam> m {1 fraction} 1/5 m

In-nilattu Oṭṭā [3+] Ik-kōyilil peruḷūr kiḻavaṉ (Eḻun)t-aruḷivitta tiru-kāma-kōṭṭam-uṭaiya mā-malai-y-āṭṭi(yā)rkku Amutu paṭikku Uṭal-āka

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ meṣa° NK ⬦ deṣa° G. — ⟨1⟩ ¿b?⟨p⟩añcamiyum ⬦ bañcamiyum NK; bantudiyam G. — ⟨1⟩ Uyyakkoṇṭār NK ⬦ Uyyakoṇṭār G. — ⟨1⟩ [6+] paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar NK ⬦ vāṇappaṭi paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar ARIE • The inscription might have been in a better state in 1911 (ARIE) than in 1977 (NK). — ⟨1⟩ piṟin=ta{ta} NK ⬦ paṟin=ta{ta} G. — ⟨1⟩ kuḷattum NK ⬦ kaḷattum G.

⟨2⟩ Aṭ¿a?⟨ai⟩tta ⬦ Aṭatta NK G. — ⟨2⟩ {1 fraction} 1/5 • G: “There are 2 symbols which may represent fractions: 1/4 and 1/32.” The second symbol is 1/5. — ⟨2⟩ Uṭalāka • The inscription stops here.

Translation by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) 22nd year of Tirupuvaṉa Cakkaravattikaḷ Śrī Rājarājatēvar, on the day (nāḷ) of Pūcam1 falling (peṟṟa) on Wednesday (putaṉ-kiḻamaiyum), the pañcami of the bright fortnight (pūrva-pakṣattu) in the meṣa month (nāyaṟṟu).

(1–2) [To] the Lord (uṭaiyār) of Tiruppāmpuram, Lord (uṭaiyār) of Uyyakkoṇṭārvaḷanāṭu, […] Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyar [gave], for a holy vessel (tirukalattukku) for the sacred bath (tirumañcaṉam) supplying (āṟṟil?) for one measure (paṭikku) of rice (aricil) continuously (nittal), and for the holy garland (tiruppaḷḷittāmattukkum) of fifty-two (aimpattiru) red water lily (ceṅkaḻanit, that is, ceṅkaḻunīr): as his (ivar) kāṇi (kāṇiyāṉa) in the disjoined (piṟinta) village (ūrilum) and in this village (ivvūrilum), in all lands (nilattum) and ponds (kuḷattum), having taken (koṇṭu) on the southern bank (teṉkaraiyil) the village (nattam) to the south (teṟkku) of the temple of Piṭāri which is included (uṭppaṭa, that is, uḷpaṭa), having renovated (tiruntu) the small (ciṟutu?) northern tank (vaṭakuḷam) for the water channel (vāykkālukku) […] which goes (pōkiṟa) in the open spaces (akalattu) of half a measure (araikkōl), the land (nilam) included (uḷpaṭa) is {3 fractions}.

(2) In this (itil), [there are]

  • a land of 5 […] placed (aṭaitta) so as to put red water lily (tiruceṅkaḻaṉi, that is, tiruceṅkaḻunīr) for one measure (paṭikku) continuously (nittal) without the taxes (iṟaiyili) removed (nīṅkiṉa) [for?] the village (ūr),
  • a land of {2 fractions} placed (aṭaitta) for he who raises (eṭuppānukku) the sacred bath (tirumañcaṉam) .

(2) In this land (innilattu), in this temple (ikkōyilil) […] for a measure (paṭikku) of food offerings (amutu) for Māmaliyāṭṭiyār, Lord (uṭaiya) of Tirukkāmakkōṭṭam, whom the lord (kiḻavaṉ) of Peruḷūr caused to graciously raise (eḻuntaruḷivitta), as the body (uṭalāka) […]

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1910-1911. (ARIE/1910-1911/C/1911/90).

Edited in Patmāvati 1979 (Naṉṉilam 144/1977). Edited and translated in Gillet 2024, based on Patmāvati 1979.

This digital edition and translation by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis, based on Patmāvati 1979.

Primary

[NK] Patmāvati, Ā. 1979. Naṉṉilam kalveṭṭukkaḷ: mutal tokuti. Tamiḻnāṭṭu kalvetṭukaḷ 12. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu Tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai. Item 144/1977.

[G] Gillet, Valérie. 2024. Minor Majesties: The Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyars and their South Indian Kingdom of Paḻuvūr, 9th-11th centuries A.D. New York: Oxford University Press. [URL]. Pages 269–270, item 147.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1910-1911. G.O. No. 832, 28th July 1911. Epigraphy. Recording the progress report of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for epigraphy, Southern Circle, for the year 1910-1911. Edited by H. Krishna Sastri. No place, 1911. Page 37, appendix C/1911, item 90.

Notes

  1. 1. The 8th nakṣatra.